Our experience with HW for any email server has been : Ram,(the more the better) Fast drives(SCSI raids) and good backup. CPU's being on the low side!
-----Original Message----- From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:14 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Hardware Question Amount of users is one thing, but storage and message/time is what you should be concerned with. Go to MS's Exchange site they have tools/papers to guide you. Just go to 2000 and be happy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cooke, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:04 PM Subject: Hardware Question > All, > Our company is buying a new Exchange server. At the start running 5.5 > hopefully migrating to E2K sooner rather than later. I was hoping > that someone may be able to help me decide whether or not to invest in > 1MB or 2MB > L2 processor cache rather than buying the 512K L2 cache. This server > over the next 5 years may be supporting up to 1,000 users and if > someone could give me their opinions on whether 1MB or 2MB of cache > will be needed or if the performance gain will even be seen with a > server supporting 1,000 users > I'd greatly appreciate it. I've been looking to buy a server with dual > 1.8 Ghz/512K processors. I have priced other servers that are far more expensive > with 1MB or 2MB cache. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks > in advance, Brian > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
